Nouns

- Definition: A word or word group that is used to name a

person, place, thing, or an idea.

-Examples: Couple, computer, Texas, documents,

connection, and freedom.
 Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns
Common Noun:
-Definition: A common noun names any one of a group or persons,
places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized.

-Examples: Book, campus, market, pointer, phone, and backpack.

Proper Noun:
-Definition: A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or
idea, and is capitalized.

-Examples: Holt Handbook, Nesbitt Discovery Academy, Mac

computer, IPhone, and Jansport backpack.
 Pronouns
- Definition: A word that is used in place of one or more
nouns or pronouns.

-Examples: I, they, your, our, she, we, them, he, us, him, his,
their, them, and its.
He is playing
with the train.

They are playing all Is she sleeping in her bed?

together.
 Personal Pronoun
-Definition: A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking is first person, the
one spoken to is second person, or the one being spoken to is third person.
-First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours, our.
-Second person: you, yours, your.
-Third person: He, him his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.

Look, I am good
at reading!

They are playing You click the

jump rope. icon to open
the game.
 Demonstrative and Interrogative
Pronouns
-Demonstrative Pronouns:
-Definition: A demonstrative pronoun is used to point our a
specific person, place, thing, or idea.
-Examples: This, That, These, Those.

I think this is
good enough.

-Interrogative Pronouns:
-Definition: An interrogative pronoun introduces a question.
-Examples: Who, whom, which, what, whose.
Hmmm, who is in
my class?
 Adjective
-Definition: A word that is used to modify a noun or a
pronoun.

Green Die. Big boss Awkward

employee Haunted House
 Demonstrative Adjectives and
Articles
-Demonstrative Adjective:
-Definition: A demonstrative adjective is an adjective modifies a noun or
pronoun.
-Example:
-Did Jenifer draw this one or that one?
-Let’s take these sandwiches and those apples on our picnic.
-Articles:
-Definition: An Indefinite Article is when they refer to any member of a group.
-Examples:
-A girl won.
-The one day sale is on Saturday.
 Verb
-Definition: A verb that is used to express action or a state
of being.
-Example: Texting, jumping, push, doing.
Mom helps
Jack do his
homework.

Mr. White is
teaching. The students
get on the bus.
 Helping Verbs
-Definition: Helping Verbs help the main verb express
action or a state of being.
-Examples: can, do, has, might, should, and could.

Hey! You should put the toys

in the box.

Please, can you

cut the cake
now?
 Adverb
- Definition: A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or
adverb.
-Examples: There, up, here, down, tomorrow, weekly, later,
and early. (Think –ly too.)
The girl is going
to ride her bike
up the street.

I saw a blue apple

there.
They are talking
seriously.
 Preposition
-Definition: A word that shows the relationship of a noun or
a pronoun to another word.
-Examples: Aboard, below, from, since, about, beneath,
throughout, concerning, past, and without.

They are aboard the

This guy train.
is from
history.
 Conjunction
-Definition: A word that joins word or words groups.

Decide whether to stay or go.

Coordinating Conjunctions:
-Examples: And, but, or nor, for yet so.
-Examples: You are supposed to walk on the street or the sidewalk.
Correlative Conjunctions:
-Examples: Both…and, Not only…but also, Whether…or.
-Example: Both Jim and Roberto were standing outside.
Jerry is not only strong but also sturdy.
 Interjection
-Definition: A word that expresses emotion.

-Definition: An interjection has no grammatical relation to

the rest of the sentence.

-Examples: Crap! Wow! Yuck! Yippee! Uh-oh! Well!

WEEE! I’m YUCK! This
Swinging! is nasty!

OWW! This Hurts.

Task I: Identify which is noun (N), pronoun (P), verb (V), and/or
adverb (Adv) and prepare your understanding on why it is so.
Task 2: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words in
the table
Task 3